Depp’s character is a dead man, wandering through life in search of his soul. Don’t be decieved: this is not a Western; the story could be from any era, and the speech and mannerisms are from our own. It’s a beautiful and challenging movie, and worth watching for the sake of its clumsily attractive gunfights alone. Great acting, great cinematography, a great score by Neil Young, and great filmmaking by Jarmusch. If you must label it a Western, then it’s one of my favorite Westerns of all time. 87/100

Roger Ebert says that “Dead Man is a strange, slow, unrewarding movie that provides us with more time to think about its meaning than with meaning.” Mostly, I agree. To me, Dead Man’s beauty is not in its meaning - which could only be the same meaning any soul-searching movie routinely gives us - but the way in which it is given to us. In this way, Dead Man is extremely rewarding.